CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-6443

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2026-04-17 Modified 2026-10-26 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-04-17
Last modified
2026-10-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-506

Description

All plugins by Essentialplugin for WordPress are vulnerable to an injected backdoor in various versions. This is due to the plugin being sold to a malicious threat actor that embedded a backdoor in all of the plugin's they acquired. This makes it possible for the threat actor to maintain a persistent backdoor and inject spam into the affected sites.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-506 Embedded Malicious Code weakness

References